12/12/2014 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
Changes in political affiliation by parliamentarians during their mandates are a common phenomenon in many member states. Yet this nomadism raises questions on political opportunism, the committee concluded.
27/06/2014 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The committee, in collaboration with the Italian delegation to PACE, will hold a parliamentary seminar on 1 July in Rome on codes of conduct for parliamentarians and the prevention of corruption.
08/04/2014 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
“For once, we should be intolerant: intolerant of any attempt at corruption, intolerant of any form of wrongdoing” said the President of the PACE at the launching of the new PACE anti-corruption platform.
08/04/2014 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
A conference-debate on “investigative journalism and the role of national parliaments in combating corruption” marked the official launch of the PACE anti-corruption platform.
13/03/2014 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The parliamentarians from Andorra had the highest participation rates in the plenary debates of the PACE in 2013, ahead of the members from Switzerland and Luxembourg.
29/11/2013 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The committee will hold a seminar on 2 December in Belgrade, in co-operation with the PACE Parliamentary Project Support Division, on the mechanisms available to national parliaments to counter corruption.
29/04/2013 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
At a time of budgetary restrictions affecting most member States, the Council of Europe budget for 2014 and 2015 will show zero nominal growth, notes Rudy Salles in an opinion on the budget and priorities of the Organisation.
25/04/2013 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
In adopting a report by Pedro Agramunt, the PACE Committee on Rules of Procedure has proposed that monitoring and post-monitoring reports in future be presented to the Assembly at least once every three years.
25/04/2013 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
The report by Rudy Salles on Assembly expenditure for 2014-2015, which was adopted by the Committee on Rules of Procedure, states that this organ will have to agree to reduce its expenditure for the next two years.
19/03/2013 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
Though public administrations have to accept the changing social and economic environment, public services cannot be built on the contingencies of the moment. The State remains a guarantor of social, economic and territorial cohesion.
15/03/2013 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
Parliamentarians from Norway voted most often in plenary debates during 2012, holding on to the top slot they obtained in 2011. Norway’s delegation cast over 87 per cent of their maximum number of possible votes.
20/03/2012 | Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs
Parliamentarians from Norway voted most often in plenary debates of the Assembly during 2011, according to statistics made public today. in a “league table” of the voting rates of national delegations.